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BLINDING LIGHTS | DRUM COVER · El Estepario Siberiano

BLINDING LIGHTS | DRUM COVER · El Estepario Siberiano
EXERCISE 7 OF 92
Groove B -- Part B
86 / 224 BARS COVERED
0 / 92 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART AB
PART W
PART B
OUTRO
15 groovesATWJBAB+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 23
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 5
JOIN · 17
LINK · 6
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BLINDING LIGHTS | DRUM COVER on drums

224 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 5:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-11, hi-hat through bars 12-41, snare through bars 42-43, hi-hat through bars 44-81 and snare through bars 82-84, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 148-154, 162-175 and 180, and 1 more place -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    148
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
BLINDING LIGHTS | DRUM COVER -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 11, 19, 27, 35, 42, 43 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 77 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- AT -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-42 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 17-69 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is BLINDING LIGHTS | DRUM COVER?

171 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is BLINDING LIGHTS | DRUM COVER hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

224 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 26 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in BLINDING LIGHTS | DRUM COVER?

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 11, 19, 27, 35, 42, 43 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 224 BARS ANALYSED